[KLUG Members] Sendmail connection

[members@kalamazoolinux.org]

>Sendmail is starting to annoy me.  I can't see why this still will not work. 
>I can connect to my sendmail through telnet localhost 25, but cannot connect
>from the outside. 

Simple, your ISP is blocking 25 & 80 to protect a$$#### running toy OSs from
things like redworm, etc...  And intelligent people, as always, get screwed in
the process.

>have my firewall (ipchains/tables) set to accept all.  I have the
>hosts.allow set to all:all, and I have the /etc/mail/access set to relay all
>my private computers (windows), and a couple machines (my friends and
>gwind.pair.com) outside the local network.  

Not such a good idea,  that type of control can be spoofed.  Better to use a VPN
or authenticated SMTP.

>I am actually thinking this could be the linksys router, however it seems
>very unlikely since 80 and 22 both are forwarding correctly to linux.